Interoperability

Organizations struggling with data management challenges need to build the model that works for them, says Drew Ivan, chief strategy officer for Rhapsody.

The people who are getting left out are those whose information is not making its way to the people who are caring for them, says Gabriel Garcia-Lopez, health information systems director for the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

Sequoia Project VP of informatics, conformance and interoperability Didi Davis highlights the company’s Data Usability Implementation Guide v.1, released last year, at her HIMSS23 panel.  

Trent Sanders, VP of healthcare, U.S., at Kyndryl, in a preview of a HIMSS23 presentation, discusses overcoming technology bottlenecks across revenue cycle processes.  

VP of operations David Murtagh, at MultiPlan, which cofounded the Synaptic Health Alliance with United Healthcare, Humana and others, will speak at HIMSS23 about emerging use cases for distributed ledger technology for payers and providers.  

Even AI created in the lab needs feedback from the real world, says Tina Manoharan, VP of Data & AI Center of Excellence at Philips, who is speaking at HIMSS23.

Kathryn Kuttler, Darren Mann and Dr. Peter Haug of Intermountain Healthcare preview their HIMSS23 presentation about the ways a low-code framework built on FHIR benefits real-time decision support in the ER.

Patients are 61% less likely to be readmitted to the hospital and 53% less likely to visit an ER if their medical records are accessed by providers within 30 days of discharge, says Juan Nanez, RN, Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange director of Programs.  

Epic's Matt Doyle, R&D Team Lead & Software Development Team Leader for Interoperability, says the company's next move as a QHIN is to show the benefit of TEFCA to providers and simplify connectivity.

Interoperability Institute EVP Mary Kratz previews the her HIMSS23 panel on the power of open-source solutions and cross-sector challenges to achieving interoperability.